Armie Hammer has resurfaced for the first time since he was charged with rape in March.
The 34-year-old actor – who was shut out of film projects and by his arts agency amid allegations, which he denied – was pictured having dinner in the Cayman Islands.
According to the photo agency selling the photos, the actor dined with a group of friends at Macabuca’s seaside tiki bar, which offers stunning views of the Caribbean Sea, and “no alcohol was consumed “.
It’s not the kind of place you go to if you don’t want to be seen, according to the restaurant, which describes the place as “the place to be”. There’s even a table-centric webcam at all times.
Hammer now has a crew cut and has shaved off his facial hair.
In March, a 24-year-old woman claimed to have been “violently raped” by Hammer in 2017. She claimed they met on Facebook and, between 2016 and 2020, had a relationship – while he was married to Elizabeth Chambers – who was both violent and abusive. She said, “I thought he was going to kill me.”
Hammer’s attorney said the star “maintains that all of her interactions with [his accuser] – and all of her other sexual partners for that matter – were completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon in advance, and mutually participatory. “The Los Angeles Police Department has confirmed Hammer as the suspect in a sexual assault investigation since Feb. 3.
Hammer has been in the headlines since January, when screenshots of DM’s Instagram graphics that he allegedly sent to various women between 2016 and 2020 first surfaced. The posts described sexual fantasies, including violence, rape and cannibalism.
In addition to his rape accuser, several women who claimed to have relationships with Hammer have come forward. Paige Lorenze, an Instagram model who dated Hammer for four months last year, claimed he used a knife to mark her and bruised her to mark her. Another woman, app founder Courtney Vucekovich, who Hammer dated last year, told him he wanted to “break my rib and the barbecue and eat it” and accused him of emotional abuse. for which she was seeking treatment. Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, a writer who was briefly linked to Hammer last summer, tweeted around the time it all unfolded: “If you’re still wondering if these Armie Hammer DMs are real (and they are) , you might be starting to wonder why we live in a culture that is willing to give abusers the benefit of the doubt rather than the victims. “
Hammer’s representative called all of the claims “patently false”.
Hammer and his 10-year wife Chambers announced in July that they were going their separate ways. They had been quarantined in Grand Cayman with their two children, and she remained there after the split during her initial return to the United States.
She said she was “shocked, heartbroken and devastated” by the allegations against her future ex.
Hammer was unable to return to Grand Cayman to see their children before the holidays. In early January, on his first trip home and as his DM scandal unfolded, he posted videos of a woman in lingerie on a bed on his private Instagram account, calling her “Miss Cayman”. He then issued a public apology clarifying “that the person in my video, which was stolen from my private Instagram account, is not Miss Cayman” – after the chair of the Miss Cayman Islands Universe committee launched an investigation into the video.
Other videos shared on the same account saw Hammer talking about a drug test he had to see to visit his children. He said he was successful despite the “THC and the benzos” or the benzodiazepines “in my piss”, adding, “Divorce is so much fun. Not as fun as drugs. But what the hell is it? is.”
Hammer lost several movies (Billion Dollar Spy, Shotgun Wedding) and a series (The offer) in the midst of fallout and will no longer be part of Broadway Minutes. He was also dropped by the talent agency WME and his personal publicist.
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